tomato
@tomatoxyz
(2/3) And I'm excited by the prospect of clients and mini-apps but I know the reality is similar to the bookmark feature - if they're created by a 3rd party and there is no incentive channel or community ownership then things don't get maintained and fall into a state of disrepair. Another example was as soon as I began researching Farcaster I came across the Degen website and thought it was officially a part of Farcaster (except it appears to be community owned). The website has dead links, dead apps etc and it's a sorry state to see a project in - if you enter Farcaster via the Degen website then you would think the ecosystem died a long time ago. This isn't a problem specific to Farcaster either - I've seen other absolutely massively funded ecosystems with the same problem such as DeSo which was a plethora of dead links, dead projects and expired domain names.
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Trigs
@trigs
I don't disagree with anything you're saying. I share a lot of the same frustrations. We can disagree all day long with the merkle team, but at the end of the day either you believe the protocol is sufficiently decentralized and safe to build on or you don't. 🤷 No matter how good or bad Warpcast is, the number of ppl who want to be on a web3 Twitter with mini apps is a limited addressable market. I know more ppl in real life that would never use Warpcast but would participate in a decentralized social network that gave them control over how they participated. There are thousands of Internet communities out there that want nothing to do with anything Warpcast will ever be, but they would use a sufficiently decentralized social graph that enabled them to coordinate on their terms. Maybe Farcaster will implode and die. There are other potential solutions too. But the ppl here are too cool not to be here for now!
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